Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-11 Thread Pavanaja U B
This is not a very big task. All Indic scripts are separated by decimal 128 in Unicode charts. For ex., take Hindi “ka”. Add 128 to its Unicode value to get Bengali “ka”. I had written a simple such transliterator long ago, using VB.NET. I did not write any web interface to that. Regards, P

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-11 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Pavanaja U B wrote: > This is not a very big task. All Indic scripts are separated by decimal 128 > in Unicode charts. For ex., take Hindi “ka”. Add 128 to its Unicode value to > get Bengali “ka”. I had written a simple such transliterator long ago, using > VB.NET

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-11 Thread Pavanaja U B
But then there is one issue of missing characters in some scripts. For example Tamil has very few characters. When we transliterate from other language into Tamil, say Kannada, we will have to put one character instead of another. The original character will be lost. When we transliterate back t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-11 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Pavanaja U B wrote: > But then there is one issue of missing characters in some scripts. For > example Tamil has very few characters. When we transliterate from other > language into Tamil, say Kannada, we will have to put one character instead > of another. The or

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-11 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:39 PM, sankarshan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Pavanaja U B > wrote: >> But then there is one issue of missing characters in some scripts. For >> example Tamil has very few characters. When we transliterate from other >> language into Tamil, say Kannada, we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-11 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Vishnu t wrote: > As we understand, this would primarily include nurturing local talent that > can help and support the Indian Language Wiki communities on orienting > people towards Media Wiki, fix bugs, troubleshoot tech related issues, input > methods, OCR etc.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - February '13

2013-03-11 Thread noopur
Dear all, Correction: There is a mistake in the newsletter in the Events Organized section. The Creative Commons event in Bangalore was NOT organized by A2K team. It was organized by members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and A2K team members, Nitika and Subhashish attended it and helped with

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-11 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
Dear Tejaswini Niranjan, My apologies for the delay in responding, was offline for much of the day. Depending on whom you ask, you could get different replies about the script Konkani uses. My understanding is as follows: Devanagari-script Konkani = Official script in Goa. Prizes are mostly give